Science: Prodigious Plant

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Looking toward the time when Earth's supply of coal & oil gives out, imaginative scientists have long tinkered with ponderous reflectors and batteries of photoelectric cells to harness the sun's outpouring of energy. Lately they have realized that plants are better converters of this energy than any man has ever devised. Ordinary cornstalks, ground to powder, can be used as a furnace fuel, like powdered coal. The Cabot researchers will try to develop bigger, more vigorous and faster-growing trees by artificial pollination and juggling of chromosomes (heredity elements in the germ cells). After 50 years the fund, if any of it is left, may be used for any purpose Harvard designates.